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[January 14, 1944 page 1]
SPEEDOMETER
PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY BY THE LOUISVILLE CEMENT CORPORATION - SPEED, INDIANA
VOLUME XIII January 14, 1944 NUMBER I
[Cartoon]
STAY SAFE OFF-THE-JOB, TOO
Here Lies What's Left of Jack McGack
He Trespassed On The Railroad Track
Does railroad trespassing pay?
Last year, 2000 trespassers were killed and about 1600 Injured. A lot of these folks were tailing short-cuts home.
Those short-cuts proved to be the longest trips the victims ever took. Tough, but true.
If there's a railroad track between your hone and your job, you naturally are tempted to cut across it, particularly when you are tired or in a hurry. It's a gamble you shouldn't take -- it's a gamble you have no right to take, especially while you're a producer of the stuff that's winning the war.
Railroad spikes and gravel can throw you and injure you painfully. So can wet and slippery tracks. Many a minor fall turned into injury because the person was caught by a train before he could get out of the way.
Using trestles and narrow railroad bridges for footpaths is risky business. Kids love to walk the ties, but an adult, though he knows better, often does it against his better judgment.
And there are still members of the "suicide squad" who will crawl under or between the cars of a standing train. Some will duck under a lowering gate to join the long list of people who have lost races with trains.
Dead workers don't pull their weight in the toughest war in history.
RETIRING FROM ACTIVE SERVICE
On January 1st, after 35 years of service, Mr. Charles Edward Kasse, was placed on our pension list.
His first work with this Company was in the shale quarry. He has also worked as a steam shovel operator and at the time of his retirement he was working as clean up man in and around the plant.
Prior to working for this company he served six years in the Cavalry of the United States.
ON SURE WAY TO BEAT INFLATION
When you buy War Bonds, you help not only to pay for the war but also to help prevent inflation in America. For inflation is simply a disorderly and great rise in our cost of living, caused in part by our foolish spending - our paying skyhigh prices for things we really don't need, just because we have the money. Put your money in War Bonds instead. Save your cash today. Be smart. Then you'll be able to buy whatever you want when goods again are plentiful and prices are decently low.
FIGHTING TRIM
Physical fitness is a key to victory, whether on a ball team, in a Commando battalion, or on the production front. We may not have to whip our weight in wildcats on the job, but it would help
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[January 14, 1944 page 1]
SPEEDOMETER
PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY BY THE LOUISVILLE CEMENT CORPORATION - SPEED, INDIANA
VOLUME XIII January 14, 1944 NUMBER I
[Cartoon]
STAY SAFE OFF-THE-JOB, TOO
Here Lies What's Left of Jack McGack
He Trespassed On The Railroad Track
Does railroad trespassing pay?
Last year, 2000 trespassers were killed and about 1600 Injured. A lot of these folks were tailing short-cuts home.
Those short-cuts proved to be the longest trips the victims ever took. Tough, but true.
If there's a railroad track between your hone and your job, you naturally are tempted to cut across it, particularly when you are tired or in a hurry. It's a gamble you shouldn't take -- it's a gamble you have no right to take, especially while you're a producer of the stuff that's winning the war.
Railroad spikes and gravel can throw you and injure you painfully. So can wet and slippery tracks. Many a minor fall turned into injury because the person was caught by a train before he could get out of the way.
Using trestles and narrow railroad bridges for footpaths is risky business. Kids love to walk the ties, but an adult, though he knows better, often does it against his better judgment.
And there are still members of the "suicide squad" who will crawl under or between the cars of a standing train. Some will duck under a lowering gate to join the long list of people who have lost races with trains.
Dead workers don't pull their weight in the toughest war in history.
RETIRING FROM ACTIVE SERVICE
On January 1st, after 35 years of service, Mr. Charles Edward Kasse, was placed on our pension list.
His first work with this Company was in the shale quarry. He has also worked as a steam shovel operator and at the time of his retirement he was working as clean up man in and around the plant.
Prior to working for this company he served six years in the Cavalry of the United States.
ON SURE WAY TO BEAT INFLATION
When you buy War Bonds, you help not only to pay for the war but also to help prevent inflation in America. For inflation is simply a disorderly and great rise in our cost of living, caused in part by our foolish spending - our paying skyhigh prices for things we really don't need, just because we have the money. Put your money in War Bonds instead. Save your cash today. Be smart. Then you'll be able to buy whatever you want when goods again are plentiful and prices are decently low.
FIGHTING TRIM
Physical fitness is a key to victory, whether on a ball team, in a Commando battalion, or on the production front. We may not have to whip our weight in wildcats on the job, but it would help
(Continued on last page)